Posted by Dan in North Houston on October 14, 2008 at 12:23:37 from (98.200.150.196):
In Reply to: Is it safe? posted by Mark W. on October 14, 2008 at 08:20:02:
Back in the 70's I worked on drilling rigs. We mostly had 4 to 6 Detroit Diesels (8V74 up to 12V92TA) but sometimes Caterpiller motors. It was standard procedure during oil changes to fill the crankcase up with diesel and run the motor for a few seconds, then drain and fill with motor oil. Those motors were run hard, probably about 20+ hours per day on average. Some days they ran full throttle all day except for being idled back a few minutes every hour or so when we made a pipe connection, and a brief shut-down to check the oil level every 12 hours at crew change. With what I know now, I wouldn't do this at all. However, it didn't seem to hurt them.
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